I have a client coming by tonight to look at this project and FCP refuses to open the sequence. This has happened before, and it always seems to be right after I start adding photoshop files. (No, the PSD files are not corrupt). I've tried deleting preferences, re-installing FCP, etc. It still won't open the sequence!

When I double click on the project sequence I get the error "Not Found" first, and when I hit enter it says "Error: Out of Memory". I AM NOT OUT OF MEMORY, DAMMIT!

Sorry to tell you bro I think your SOL I was told by a apple tech that OSX reqires a lot of EXTRA HD space (more than 10gigs) So i went out and upgraded the hard drive (250gig second drive) for really cheap and upgraded the RAM up another gig. And everything was fine after that... never seen that problem again. Then change your cashe to the new drive you should be good to go.

I'm just using version 5.0 right now... can't seem to get 5.0.2 to download from Apple. (OK I confess, this isn't exactly a legal copy of final cut... YET) I'll be buying my copy from the campus store once I get to college.

Anyway I'm pretty strapped on space on the system drive, since it's only 160gb, but the 400gb drive has 90gb free, so I figured that's all that would matter... right?

I'm using a dual 2ghz G5, 2gb RAM like you said.
The FCP app is on the boot drive (160gb) which has 10GB free space. The scratch disk for FCP is the 2nd internal drive (400gb) which now has about 90GB free. And I'm editing about 3 layers of video and 2-3 layers of audio.

I'm just using version 5.0 right now... can't seem to get 5.0.2 to download from Apple. (OK I confess, this isn't exactly a legal copy of final cut... YET) I'll be buying my copy from the campus store once I get to college.

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Ummm... you are looking for support, you have a pirated FCP, you have a client coming in to look at a project which implies you are doing work for pay with the software.

I'm using a dual 2ghz G5, 2gb RAM like you said.
The FCP app is on the boot drive (160gb) which has 10GB free space. The scratch disk for FCP is the 2nd internal drive (400gb) which now has about 90GB free. And I'm editing about 3 layers of video and 2-3 layers of audio.

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Why is the 160gig so full? I've heard you need to keep about a 10% overhead free on your start-up drive.

ive had this problem before many times. And it does indeed have to do with those photoshop files.

what I would try and do, is move those PSD files out of its current location, so when you load FCP5, it will need to reconnect those files. Thats the only way I believe to fix this problem. If this doesnt work, then you are more than likely SOL

for future reference, its best to use PNG files instead of PSD files in FCP. Thats something I learned a while ago. PNG files work just as well as PSD files.

Ummm... you are looking for support, you have a pirated FCP, you have a client coming in to look at a project which implies you are doing work for pay with the software.

Bzzzzt. Thanks for playing.

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I fully agree with this. You don't pirate software and have a link to a website for a graphics/audio/video business and then come here looking for support. That said, I feel your pain cwright - I've had hard drives go out a few hours before client meetings - not a good feeling. Explain the problem to the client, fix the hardware problem, buy a LEGAL copy of FCP and either salvage your project or recreate it.

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